More dishonesty from Turtle Bay, but this time a UN bureaucrat is lying, not stealing: “The links between organised crime, drug trafficking, drug consumption, drug money, arms trafficking and terrorism become clearer every day,” said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in a statement to mark world anti-drugs day (who knew?).

It shouldn’t be necessary to point this out yet again, but it’s the prohibition that gives the terrorists the funding opportunity, not the drugs.

Meanwhile, Kofi Annan chipped in with a nonsense platitude (drugs were “little more than tickets to a dead end”) which the Chinese dictatorship took very, very literally. It “marked anti-drug day by executing dozens of traffickers…In the southern city of Guizhou, 24 people were convicted of trafficking over the weekend, and five were immediately executed with a bullet in the neck…”

Happy world anti-drugs day!